Deezer Announces Siri Voice Control Support for HomePod

[macrumorsuser10]

It’s the same price as Apple Music here in Canada. Is their catalog better/larger? Better service?
Serious question, why would one chose them?

You can find the differences in features between the various online music services on this Wikipedia page:

Comparison of music streaming services - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In that table the two most important columns are Lossless and # of tracks. You can see that the major players have 70M+ tracks, so that shouldn't necessarily be a decider.

But what is important is that Apple currently only has a lossy audio stream, specifically 256 kbps (not shown in that table). There are rumors that Apple may release a lossless service sometime in the near future.

Deezer can stream lossless CD quality (1411 kbps).

 

[sir1963nz]

Having been spammed by Deezer a number of times, they have been permanently firewalled.

 

[Squuiid]

Wow, this works really well. Finally voice activated lossless Audio from the HomePod.
So glad this arrived.

Dumped Tidal for their MQA shenanigans and their poor iOS software and integration. They just didn’t seem interested.

For those that haven’t tried Deezer Hi-Fi I highly recommend giving it a shot.

 

[hagar]

Why would that be the case? Siri has better integration with Apple Music for obvious reasons.

Yet it’s carnage. That’s my entire point.

 

[MacBH928]

If you can't find a better name for your company than Deezer, I really have a problem trusting your service

 

[laszlo182]

it’s insane spotify still hasn’t implemented this! especially since they complain so much. and still no lyrics 🙈

 

[The Game 161]

If only spotify do the same

 

[MacSince1985]

In France Deezer is used by many people...
They had a partnership with Orange a couple of years ago that can explain that ( and the fact that was French at the beginning , don't know if it is still the case...)

As a French speaker living in the US, I tried Deezer early on. The geofencing of many tracks/artists made it extremely frustrating to use and I quickly abandoned it. VPNs weren't really a thing back then.

 

[Squuiid]

As a French speaker living in the US, I tried Deezer early on. The geofencing of many tracks/artists made it extremely frustrating to use and I quickly abandoned it. VPNs weren't really a thing back then.

You can now switch countries within the app to access the library of any country you wish. As many times as you want.

 

[sdz]

Hello guys, which will you recommend, Deezer Or Spotify?

Spotify is cheaper to use (if you get Brazilian codes) Effective something around 2,50€ pM.
Deezer is more difficult I think.